Category Archives: Sleep

Co-Sharing Bed

@ 9 months 1 week 3 days
We adopt a bed co-sharing approach with Ryan since his 3rd month. He just refused to sleep on his cot. He would be soundly asleep when we put him on the cot, couple of hours later he will be wailing for our attention refusing any sorts of stimulation to calm him down. Then when we laid him on our bed, he would fall asleep into Zzz-land in no seconds. So, the rest is history la.. until today I (hubs agree with me too) we got so used to Ryan on our bed that we have been procrastinating the need to move him back to cot so we both can have more ahem… intimate moment lor (to add… nah don’t humsup.. i don’t only mean ‘that’ intimate la.. it’s oso bcos the current bed will be too small to fit 3 people sooner or later) :P

Regardless how determined we were to move Ryan to his own cot, when we see him sleeping so peacefully on our bed, we just can’t do it.

I know this is crazy… I’m relating it as if I have to put Ryan on his cot miles away. Every night, we gave ourselves excuses, start tomorrow la.. and tomorrow.. and tomorrow. Arrgh… I’m gonna miss my sleep mate if one day we really have no choice but to it – for Ryan’s long term development sake.

Wish me luck……

Our sleepmate Ryan sleeping soundly on our bed

‘Early Night’ Tonight?

@ 9 months 3 days

Never never praised your baby in front, side, behind of them. Last night I proudly posted on Ryan’s changed sleep pattern. Last night he gave me a surprise by waking up at 3am. Adoi.. I knew he was awake cos I can feel he was tossing about on bed; rolling to Daddy, then to Mummy vice versa. But.. strangely he did not fuss a bit; neither did he make a single sound. How could a hyper baby like Ryan be such quiet? If it wasn’t because I am a light sleeper, I wouldn’t have know Ryan was awake. Mr Lim, in this scenario was soundly ZzzZZzzzz…..

I fed Ryan some milk and placed him back on bed. Pat him a little and within split second dozed off already (who dozed off??? Mummy lor… Hahahaha). I seriously have no idea what time Ryan fall back to sleep.

Ryan woke up at 7.45am. Not bad not bad…

‘Early Night’ Tonight?

@ 9 months 3 days

Never never praised your baby in front, side, behind of them. Last night I proudly posted on Ryan’s changed sleep pattern. Last night he gave me a surprise by waking up at 3am. Adoi.. I knew he was awake cos I can feel he was tossing about on bed; rolling to Daddy, then to Mummy vice versa. But.. strangely he did not fuss a bit; neither did he make a single sound. How could a hyper baby like Ryan be such quiet? If it wasn’t because I am a light sleeper, I wouldn’t have know Ryan was awake. Mr Lim, in this scenario was soundly ZzzZZzzzz…..

I fed Ryan some milk and placed him back on bed. Pat him a little and within split second dozed off already (who dozed off??? Mummy lor… Hahahaha). I seriously have no idea what time Ryan fall back to sleep.

Ryan woke up at 7.45am. Not bad not bad…

Early Nights

@ 9 months 2 days
Strange strange strange. For the last 3 nights (incl tonight) Ryan seems to have change his sleeping pattern.
Usually Ryan would be taking his nap (usually an hour) when I got home from work (around 7.30pm) and he’ll continue to do so until like 8pm or latest 8.30pm otherwise I would have to wake him up something I hate to do esp seeing his soundly asleep face.. Sigh, but have to la.. mummy don’t want to be zombie tomorrow in case he sleeps late later.
Oki oki.. back here. On the first night, exactly 9 months, Ryan surprisngly missed his evening nap. He woke up around 5pm and usually by 7pm he’ll be like garfield already with his sleepy eyes but that evening I came home to see an active baby playing with his toys with YehYeh and MaMa. Strange…. He slept by 9.30pm. Poor daddy, who was busy with work only came home at 10pm only to find his cutie already in Zzzz-land.
So so, did Ryan wake up after that….. answer is NO. Yoohoo.. but knowing he must be hungry, I fed him some milk around 11.30pm just before I went ZZZ also.. and our cutie continue to be in Zzzz-land until 8.00am in the morning. Happy happy.
2nd night, I came home to see MaMa with Ryan outside the porch area. That was like 7.30pm. Apparently Ryan just woke up from his half hour nap. That night I literally have to delay Ryan’s sleeping time (he was eyes rubbing and yawning all the way already at 9.30pm). So, after his daily apple puree I fed him with some milk and put him to sleep. Daddy only reached home at 11pm. Of course Ryan was happily dreaming already. He woke up 7.40am this morning.
Tonight, slightly different. Came home while Ryan was still napping. As soon I put down my bag and sit next to him on bed, my lil monster opened his eyes and start pili pala with baby talk (active with baby talk). Adoi, mummy have not even rested. Anyway, nevermind la.. spent the next few hours playing with Ryan. Again I tried to delay his sleep time cos Daddy called said he miss Ryan and wants to play with him. Daddy only reached home at 10.00pm. Yes, Ryan was still awake but not for long. By 10.35pm he was ZZZ already after I fed him some milk.
Now, many people asked me why your hubs has to work until so late. Well, have to ‘wan sek’ (earn a living) ma. But he’s not always that late. However for the next 2-3 months his family life will literally be screwed because of this Project ‘M’ – sensitive.. cannot tell the exact company name. Heehee…
Okay.. as I’m typing this I am also half stoned already. Been sooooooooooooooo busy with work for the last few days. Crazy. Work diarrhea. Of course the incident of my corrupted pst file kinda made my work life so disorganised and screwed. Thanks to MxxxxxxxT software. Arrgh.. sleep sleep sleep. I have project this Saturday. Must ‘yong chok ching sun’ and no panda eyes pls. Nite nite.

Pic taken: 16 Jan 2007

Little Surprise

@ 8 months 2 weeks 4 days

The older gen always say don’t ever praise the baby in front of them. If they are cute, say they are ugly. If they are chubby, say they are skinny, etc etc and what not else they will grow to be the exact opposite. Not sure how true la.. but remember I blogged about Ryan able to sleep through the night, etc etc last night, and guess what this morning he gave this mummy a little surprise, he woke up at 4.30am!!! Luckily after some coaxing (he was laying very quietly next to mummy.. strange) and continuous patting until 5.30am he finally fall back to sleep. Hands also went numb already. I am like a zombie today… sob sob.